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Sumitomo Metals Expands Capacity for High-End Seamless Pipe Products

10 July 2008 - Sumitomo Metal Industries completes expansion work to add production capacity for high-end seamless pipes, at Steel Tube Works in Amagasaki and Wakayama Steel Works, both part of Sumitomo Metals’ Pipe & Tube Co.

U. S. Steel Breaks Ground on Heat Recovery Coke Plant at Granite City

06 May 2008 - United States Steel and SunCoke Energy break ground on a $570 million joint capital investment program to construct a new state-of-the-art 650,000 ton/year coke facility adjacent to U. S. Steel’s Granite City Works.

Linde, ArcelorMittal to Highlight Flameless Oxyfuel Technology at AISTech

02 May 2008 - Linde and ArcelorMittal will describe the benefits of using flameless oxyfuel technology in a continuous steel reheat furnace next week at AISTech 2008 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh.

Commerce Finds Unfair Dumping of Rectangular Pipe and Tube from Turkey

09 April 2008 - The U.S. Department of Commerce announces its affirmative final determination in the antidumping duty investigation on imports of light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from Turkey.

PSI BT to Implement Production Management System for V&M Tubes Facility

02 April 2008 - PSI BT GmbH will implement PSImetals, a production management system, for Vallourec & Mannesmann Tubes’ tube mill in Aulnoye, France.

SMS Meer to Supply PQF Seamless Tube Mill for Vallourec & Sumitomo do Brasil

12 March 2008 - Vallourec & Sumitomo Tubos do Brasil has awarded a contract to SMS Meer to supply a new Premium Quality Finishing seamless tube plant.

United Spiral Pipe Breaks Ground for New Facility

03 March 2008 - United Spiral Pipe—a joint venture of United States Steel, Posco, and SeAH Steel—breaks ground for a new state-of-the-art spiral welded pipe manufacturing facility in Pittsburg, Calif.

Latrobe Specialty Steel to Expand Vacuum Remelting Facility

23 January 2008 - Latrobe Specialty Steel will triple its vacuum melting capacity with a major expansion at its Latrobe remelt facility.

Danieli and Kocks to Upgrade Seversky Seamless Tube Mill

21 January 2008 - Friedrich Kocks will supply the 3-stand extractor and 14-stand sizing mill for Danieli’s conversion of an existing Pilger mill into a continuous 14-inch seamless tube mill for TMK Group’s Seversky Truboprokatny Zavod subsidiary.

SMS Meer to Provide PQF Seamless Tube Plant for Anhui Tianda

03 January 2008 - SMS Meer will supply a new 500,000 tonnes/year seamless tube plant featuring PQF technology to Anhui Tianda Oil Pipe of China.

Domestic Stainless Tube Producers Express Concern over Imports from China

05 December 2007 - Domestic producers representing the Seamless Stainless Tube Trade Action Committee (SSTTAC) express growing concern with the rapidly expanding increasing volumes of low-priced seamless stainless steel tubing from China.

SMS Meer to Supply Large-Diameter Pipe Mill for ChTPZ Group

29 November 2007 - SMS Meer will supply the machines and equipment for a new large-diameter pipe mill for JSC Chelyabinsk in Russia.

Commerce Dept. to Impose Tariffs on Steel Pipe from China

07 November 2007 - U.S. pipe makers and the United Steelworkers applaud the U.S. Department of Commerce for its preliminary finding that the Chinese government has been providing improper subsidies on Chinese circular welded steel pipe exports to the U.S.

SMS Meer to Supply Largest-Ever Welded Tube Plant for Jiangbei Steel Processing

25 September 2007 - Jiangbei Steel Processing and Logistics, part of the WISCO steel group, places an order with SMS Meer to supply a 26-inch high-frequency welded tube plant capable of producing up to 350,000 tonnes of pipes per year, the largest of its kind in the world.

SMS Meer to Provide Three-Roll Piercer for Mannesmannrohr Sachsen

24 September 2007 - SMS Meer will convert V&M Deutschland’s push-bench plant at the Zeithain Works into a cross-roll piercing and elongating plant with the installation of a three-roll piercer.

SMS Meer to Upgrade Rohrwerk Maxhütte Stretch-Reducing Mill

24 September 2007 - Rohrwerk Maxhütte contracts SMS Meer to repair and modernize an existing stretch-reducing mill at Sulzbach-Rosenberg, including the supply of additional rolls stands and upgrades to the mill’s drives, automation systems, and rotary saw.

SMS Meer to Supply 4th Large-Diameter Pipe Mill in China

17 September 2007 - SMS Meer will supply a large-diameter pipe mill equipped for the patented JCOE process that will produce large-diameter longitudinal SAW steel pipes for Zhongyou BSS Petropipe.

BMZ Starts up SMS Meer-Supplied Seamless Tube Mill

29 August 2007 - Byelorussian Steel Works celebrates the official opening of a complete SMS Meer seamless tube plant featuring PQF three-roll finishing technology.

Dofasco Tubular to Sell Elizabethtown Tube Facility to Samuel Manu-Tech

09 August 2007 - Dofasco Tubular Products signs definitive purchase agreement for the sale of its Elizabethtown stainless tubemaking facility to Samuel Manu-Tech of Mississauga, Ont.

Northwest Pipe Acquires Continental Pipe Manufacturing

06 July 2007 - Northwest Pipe announces the acquisition of the operating assets of Continental Pipe Manufacturing of Pleasant Grove, Utah.